{"id":1849,"date":"2008-03-16T12:15:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/the-price-of-yeast\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T12:10:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:10:50","slug":"the-price-of-yeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/the-price-of-yeast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Yeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baking yeast packets at the supermarket: $3 for 3 0.25 oz packets. $64\/lb<\/p>\n<p>Bulk baking yeast: $2.29 for a 1lb brick. $2.29\/lb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Packets cost 28 times as much<\/strong>. Yipe.<\/p>\n<p>Smart and Final sells packets right next to bulk 1 lb containers. The packets cost $3 for 0.75 oz, the bulk costs $4 for 16 ounces. You do the math. Buy the bulk yeast. It freezes perfectly well after being opened for at least a year (I haven&#8217;t ever had to freeze it longer, I use it)<\/p>\n<p>Costco, Sams Club and similar stores also have the 1lb brick of yeast. If you make more than 3 loaves of bread this year, it&#8217;s worth getting the large size. With my breadmaker, I make about 30 loaves\/year.<\/p>\n<p>Rainbow also has open bulk yeast. \u00a0Yeast generally lasts at least 1 year in the freezer&#8230; except for the yeast I got at Rainbow. I&#8217;m pretty sure it needs to be <em>refrigerated<\/em> and not frozen because twice now I got yeast there, made a loaf, froze the rest and the yeast was dead after. :-(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baking yeast packets at the supermarket: $3 for 3 0.25 oz packets. $64\/lb Bulk baking yeast: $2.29 for a 1lb brick. $2.29\/lb Packets cost 28 times as much. Yipe. Smart and Final sells packets right next to bulk 1 lb containers. The packets cost $3 for 0.75 oz, the bulk costs $4 for 16 ounces. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}